Switching It Up

In the midst of dark, rainy, dreary November in Juneau came this beautiful sun-shining day.

Nothing but Blue Skies. Fine by me!

Give Out Love

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in" 

- Morrie Schwartz

After a lovely, relaxing weekend spent with friends I needed some alone time. So I wandered down the street (30 second walk) to Perseverance Theater and caught the last showing of the play "Tuesdays With Morrie," which is one of my favorite books in the world. It was a wonderfully refreshing and touching two man performance about life, love, dying, simplicity and how the only way to really leave an impact after you're gone is to invest in others and share yourself with the world. If you've never read this book, I would highly recommend it!

New Adventure

I was wandering around the boat docks today taking in the scene and checking out all of the boat names. This one seemed fitting for my time in life. If you had a boat (maybe you do) what would you name it? Everyday Joy is sounding good to me :)

Taste The Rainbow

I did my first site visit for my monthly preschool health promotion series today. We "tasted the rainbow" and learned all about yummy fruits and vegetables an how important it is to eat bright, colorful foods full of nutrients. 

Alaskan Season Change

Fall in Juneau isn't exactly like the crisp Autumn of upstate NY or VA full of apple picking and bales of hay...but the leaves have officially fallen and this place is begging for some snow. I'm ready! 

Splish Splash

Southeast Alaska in the fall = rain with a chance of showers, heavy precipitation likely. Everyday. This makes for large puddles (Note the flooded parking lot of my office pictured left). I have super cool Alaska rainboots so I get to have the Joy of intentionally walking in the puddles and jumping when I could just go around them. It's great.

Grrrrr

We learned about bear safety at our monthly All Corps day today. 

Fun fact: There are almost as many bears in Alaska as there are people. 

That is certainly not a human footprint. On a trail we were on...ruh row. Don't worry, I'm still alive!